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Old 04-10-2009, 12:51 PM
 
Location: Texas...and proud of it.
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Old 04-10-2009, 12:51 PM
 
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Oh and to really push that point, being protective is instinctive. Primates fight to the death for mating rights, should we fight to the death? It is a human urge isn't it? To fight for/protect what you feel is yours to protect? For survival of yourself, you know for simple procreation purposes?
Which primates fight to the death for mating rights? Humans certainly don't, so no, it's not a human urge.
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Old 04-10-2009, 12:58 PM
 
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Now that we have relaxed standards of morality and engage in moral relativism, we now have skyrocketing crime rates, rampant teenage pregnancies, widespread drug abuse, weapons in our schools, and depressed youth without hope. Isn't progress nice.
Actually, it's the progress of modern industrialism that has made teen pregnancy undesireable and difficult. For 99% of human history, and indeed, today in agricultural societies, women have successfully bore and raised children as teenagers.
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Old 04-10-2009, 01:01 PM
 
Location: America's heartland
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It can be easy to envision yikesamillion running around in frantic circles, screaming about doom and tearing the hair out of his?her? head.
phffffft. Sounds more like the actions of the rabid leftist environmentalists!
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Old 04-10-2009, 01:02 PM
 
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Think about your body for a second... I'm no scientist but just think about the complexities of the human body and how the parts of the body works together to keep us alive. Do you honestly believe without a shadow of a doubt that a human being just "evolved" from a ape? Now, look at your computer screen, what if I told you that no one created your computer but that it just "evolved" from a calculator? You'd probably say I was nuts and you'd be correct. How can anyone think that a complex human being just "evolved" without a creator?
You can't be serious. Computers don't procreate; living organisms do.
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Old 04-10-2009, 01:05 PM
 
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Personally, I'd rather not wait until I'm dead to realize that God existed after all. The stakes are just too high.
Pascal's Wager is woefully fallacious.
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Old 04-10-2009, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Up in the air
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I'm a troll, so you proclaim. That's really funny because I'm sure there are other posters here that see you as a troll. I am one of them.

The Bible is not a piece of fiction. It is well-documented factual accounts of world history since the beginning of time and the inspired word of God. It is obvious that you do not believe in the scriptures, nor in God Himself. You have chosen to take the dark and lonely road to self-destruction and an eternal life in Hell. At this stage it is up to you to repent and change your beliefs; this I cannot make you do if you choose to be foul and stubborn.
I guess troll is in the eye of the beholder.

Regarding the religion thing... please keep YOUR god out of MY government. If you want to go on believing the earth was created as it is is 6 days and that a book that has been translated thousands of times over many different languages is true and correct in every way, shape and form then so be it. Personally, I choose to believe in reality, but all of us can't be so lucky, can they?
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Old 04-10-2009, 01:07 PM
 
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*Hands Leftydan a banana*
When you have no response, you hand people bananas. See. You are an ape!
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Old 04-10-2009, 01:10 PM
 
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I find the notion that we just evolved out of nothingness to be very absurd.
What's absurd is this notion, as no one claims we evolved out of nothingness.
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Old 04-10-2009, 01:15 PM
 
Location: America's heartland
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I guess troll is in the eye of the beholder.

Regarding the religion thing... please keep YOUR god out of MY government. If you want to go on believing the earth was created as it is is 6 days and that a book that has been translated thousands of times over many different languages is true and correct in every way, shape and form then so be it. Personally, I choose to believe in reality, but all of us can't be so lucky, can they?
The Bible is reality, O Childish One.

You seriously need to become educated about the scriptures and their meaning. Read Genesis 1. The creation of the earth is outlined specifically in sequential order.

Here, I will make it easy for you so you don't have to research it.

1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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